8.20: Twitter and Tear Gas—Explained

Walking through Zeynep Tüfekçi’s masterful explanation of the relationship between social media and protest movements.

Things we mentioned on the show, in the order we mentioned them:

• Zeynep Tüfekçi
  • her recently-launched newsletter Insight
• modern Turkey
• Zapatistas
• Occupy Wall Street
• 1999 World Trade Organization protests
• Arab Spring
• Tea Party
• China’s treatment of the Uyghurs
• Capacities/capabilities
  • The Capability Approach, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Amartya Sen
• American Civil Rights Movement
  • March on Washington
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • John Lewis
• The Internet Archive

• December (8.22 and 8.23): Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan.

• “Ode to Youth”, by Liam Mour Used by permission, please don’t use without permission.
• “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, meaning you can do whatever you want with this music… as long as you share it for others to likewise do what they want.

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• Daniel Ellcey
• Douglas Campos
• Jake Grant
• Marnix Klooster
• Spencer Smith

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